Catchdog Etiquette

[zachW]

And smaller dogs are easier to threw brush and over fences that's for sure,

[TColt]

Or a big dog can just jump a fence...

[Silverton Boar Dogs]

No dogs are going to get cut with two big dogs holding like this, this is a sow but the same happens with a boar with good teeth. The hog can't reach anything and really can't move his head much at all. I will stick with my big dogs.

[SCHitemHard]

x2 on the big dogs

[BIG CHRIS]

as far as jumping fence`s i have seen every pit i have ever ownclear a 6 ft privacy fence with no problem. no need to drop the tail gate on the truck. but when on the way to bay sure easy just tossen the CD dog over to a buddy instead of crawling and waiten for one through the wire. Man the variables!!!

[zachW]

U can't say a dog want get cut no matter how it's holding or how big it is

[TColt]

Zach, you can take our last Sunday hunt as a good example of a dog with its feet on the ground and a dog didnt. I know soco is only a couple inches taller at the shoulders but he had his feet on the ground and it made a difference. When I got there, quervo was jumpin to try and catch again. No one said that big dogs don't get cut. But when you got a big dog on each ear and they got there front feet on the ground on a big hog, they at least have some control of their body.

[Noah]

Zach, you can take our last Sunday hunt as a good example of a dog with its feet on the ground and a dog didnt. I know soco is only a couple inches taller at the shoulders but he had his feet on the ground and it made a difference. When I got there, quervo was jumpin to try and catch again. No one said that big dogs don't get cut. But when you got a big dog on each ear and they got there front feet on the ground on a big hog, they at least have some control of their body.

I have to agree... have seen it with my own eyes the ability of a dog to control a hog when he can plant his front legs to help control a hog... they just don't seem to get cut as much

[make-em-squeel]

sqeel how can you say anybodys opinion is wrong it;s treir opinion not yours !! now with that said i prefer a small catch dog for the reasons swamp hunter i think said, a foarce against a heavier object will result in greater damage period just check out physcics and you will see what he's talking about . a small smart pit [like mine ] will do just as well as and a better job of catching than those big dumb hevier catch dogs will with less damage to the dog .  

Physics is obviously not your subject of expertise. These are not inantimant objects! You let your opinion on what you like in a cd get in the way of the discussion at hand. If I have a knife in my hand, and one day a little guy comes to take it from me and the next a big guy tries which one gets cut the worst has little to do with their size but rather their style of dis-arming me.

Unlike most people on this forum I have owned both types of cds. high quality in both styles, dogs who can keep their feet on the ground and hold clean get cut less most of the time. FYI Big does not equall dumb or slow

[hoghunterdfw]

U can't say a dog want get cut no matter how it's holding or how big it is

I can say and others who hunt with me can back me up, that my catchdog Eloy has caught his fair share of hogs and honestly has never been cut (a hog might have nipped him on the leg once... maybe) and I think it has every bit to do with how he holds and his size.

[jon]

as far as jumping fence`s i have seen every pit i have ever ownclear a 6 ft privacy fence with no problem. no need to drop the tail gate on the truck. but when on the way to bay sure easy just tossen the CD dog over to a buddy instead of crawling and waiten for one through the wire. Man the variables!!!

x2 mine will clear my privacy fence.. i got 2x4 welded wire over the tops of my kennels just to keep em in.. and you will get to the bay alot faster just tossin that 40lb 45lb pit over a fence rather then waiting on em to crawl under the wire getting caught on the straps on the vest

[muleman]

No dogs are going to get cut with two big dogs holding like this, this is a sow but the same happens with a boar with good teeth. The hog can't reach anything and really can't move his head much at all. I will stick with my big dogs.

X 2

[halfbreed]

ha ha i knew that would fire you up . my little dog has only been cut once under the chin . might boil down to me prefering the smaller dogs for the fact that i have real hog dogs and when the catch dog hits the rest of my pack will emediatly catch with the exception of my strike dog . and them being taller does help control the hog . and me being a little man i can respect my catch dogs ability , cause just like i have brought down many many a big man by climbing on and installing a rear naked choke and biting them on the ear till they go down      and you still can't say a mans opinion is wrong all you can say is that it differs from your own period . good day sir ....

[t.wilbanks]

might boil down to me prefering the smaller dogs for the fact that i have real hog dogs and when the catch dog hits the rest of my pack will emediatly catch with the exception of my strike dog .

that opinion is also wrong...                         Just Kidding ( kind of ) 

[J.Prince]

and me being a little man i can respect my catch dogs ability , cause just like i have brought down many many a big man by climbing on and installing a rear naked choke and biting them on the ear till they go down     

Lol that's great stuff.
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[Miller Lite]

and me being a little man i can respect my catch dogs ability , cause just like i have brought down many many a big man by climbing on and installing a rear naked choke and biting them on the ear till they go down     

Lol that's great stuff.
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he man whatever works huh lol

[BIG CHRIS]

and me being a little man i can respect my catch dogs ability , cause just like i have brought down many many a big man by climbing on and installing a rear naked choke and biting them on the ear till they go down     

Lol that's great stuff.
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he man whatever works huh lol

that other half of his breeding is leprachuan!!! >: i feel the same way u do on the bay dogs getting a bite to. and stick man trent can understands ur point of view!!! after all he is part hobbit.

[zachW]

I'm pretty sure Cuervo and soko wermyth same height.  my point is any dog can loose it's footing, slip, loose it's grip.  I just think there is too many variables to say one way is the perfect way i agree two bigger dogs with their feet under them holding body to body is great but any thing could happen

[T-Bob Parker]

A catchdog doesn't need to have total control over the hog! Its job is two fold, slow the hog down so a human can approach it in relative safety, and being the main focus of the hogs frustrations. The squeeky wheel gets greased and you hope the catchdog is making a louder squeek than you, know what I'm saying?

I have caught a few hogs with no catchdog and have seen and heard of other people doing it with with lil bitty ol terrier dogs

If all of you really believed the catchdog should control the whole situation wed all be mixing saint Bernard and great Dane and fila Brasileiro

[zachW]

t-bob that was kinda my point there is more then one way to skin a cat